Author: Publisher:
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Category : Philadelphia (Pa.)
Languages : en
Pages : 310
Book Description
Desilver's Philadelphia Directory, and Strangers' Guide
Author: A Checklist of American Imprints for ...
Author: Historic Real Estate
Author: Whitney MartinkoPublisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 0812296990
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 305
Book Description
A detailed study of early historical preservation efforts between the 1780s and the 1850s In Historic Real Estate, Whitney Martinko shows how Americans in the fledgling United States pointed to evidence of the past in the world around them and debated whether, and how, to preserve historic structures as permanent features of the new nation's landscape. From Indigenous mounds in the Ohio Valley to Independence Hall in Philadelphia; from Benjamin Franklin's childhood home in Boston to St. Philip's Episcopal Church in Charleston, South Carolina; from Dutch colonial manors of the Hudson Valley to Henry Clay's Kentucky estate, early advocates of preservation strove not only to place boundaries on competitive real estate markets but also to determine what should not be for sale, how consumers should behave, and how certain types of labor should be valued. Before historic preservation existed as we know it today, many Americans articulated eclectic and sometimes contradictory definitions of architectural preservation to work out practical strategies for defining the relationship between public good and private profit. In arguing for the preservation of houses of worship and Indigenous earthworks, for example, some invoked the "public interest" of their stewards to strengthen corporate control of these collective spaces. Meanwhile, businessmen and political partisans adopted preservation of commercial sites to create opportunities for, and limits on, individual profit in a growing marketplace of goods. And owners of old houses and ancestral estates developed methods of preservation to reconcile competing demands for the seclusion of, and access to, American homes to shape the ways that capitalism affected family economies. In these ways, individuals harnessed preservation to garner political, economic, and social profit from the performance of public service. Ultimately, Martinko argues, by portraying the problems of the real estate market as social rather than economic, advocates of preservation affirmed a capitalist system of land development by promising to make it moral.
Rare American History, Being the Library of William Fisher Lewis, Esq
Author: William Fisher LewisPublisher:
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Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 168
Book Description
From Gothic Windows to Peacocks
Author: Edwin WolfPublisher: The Library Company of Phil
ISBN: 0914076825
Category : Bookbinding
Languages : en
Pages : 251
Book Description
Catalogue of the American Philosophical Society Library
Author: American Philosophical Society. LibraryPublisher:
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Category : Catalogs, Classified
Languages : en
Pages : 772
Book Description
Black Communities and Urban Development in America, 1720-1990: Antebellum America
Author: Kenneth L. KusmerPublisher: Articles-Garlan
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 456
Book Description
A Descriptive List of Maps and Views of Philadelphia in the Library of Congress, 1683-1865
Author: Philip Lee PhillipsPublisher:
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Category : Maps
Languages : en
Pages : 112
Book Description
The Papers of Henry Clay
Author: Henry ClayPublisher: University Press of Kentucky
ISBN: 0813162475
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 401
Book Description
This supplement to The Papers of Henry Clay contains documents discovered too late to be included in the proper chronological sequence in earlier volumes. Spanning the years from 1793 to 1852, the items shed important light on Clay's early years in Kentucky, his legal career, and his work for the Bank of the United States. Material dealing with the "Corrupt Bargain" charge is particularly rich, and many of the letters that appear in this volume fill gaps in exchanges already published. Clay's correspondence with Benjamin Watkins Lee of Virginia and Mary Bayard, wife of Delaware senator Richard Henry Bayard, is especially interesting. An essay on Clay portraits by Clifford Amyx, professor emeritus of art at the University of Kentucky, provides a detailed discussion of the paintings, statues, busts, engravings, and daguerreotypes that featured Clay as the subject. Appended to the essay is a calendar listing each major work, the artist, date of completion, and present location. A comprehensive bibliography of works cited in the entire series will benefit researchers seeking information in addition to that provided in the annotations. This supplement is an essential addition to the earlier volumes in the series.
The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Retirement Series, Volume 6
Author: Thomas JeffersonPublisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691137722
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 752
Book Description
Volume six of this definitive edition of Thomas Jefferson's papers from the end of his presidency until his death includes 516 documents from the 11th of March through to the 27th of November 1813.